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MI5 sought immunity for agents' criminal acts, tribunal told

Investigatory Powers Tribunal | 04 October 2018

MI5 agents have been granted legal immunity to participate in murder, torture, sexual assaults and other criminality, a tribunal has heard. The secret policy may, for decades, have enabled the security service to conceal illegal activity, Ben Jaffey QC told the investigatory powers tribunal. Even ov...

Release of proposal on information redaction

PFC | 05 April 2017

Documents submitted to British and Irish governments: A proposed model for Information Redaction under the Stormont House Agreement. Released to the public domain at a seminar at QUB on 4th April 2017.

Loughrey family lodge complaint with OPONI

Sara Duddy, Derry News, | 27 November 2017

How can someone be a suspect in four murders but never be arrested or questioned by the police? How can you be named on the Police National Computer as being wanted for questioning for these murders, yet travel freely around the UK, even reportedly running a bed and breakfast in Scotland? These are...

Lessons learnt by government departments from Sir Desmond de Silva’s Report of the Patrick Finucane Review

A report by the Cabinet Secretary, the Secretary of State for Defence and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | 16 January 2015

When the report by Sir Desmond de Silva into the murder of Patrick Finucane was published in 2012, the Prime Minister committed to publish the lessons learnt by government departments. Departments and agencies have carefully considered the report and described both the action taken in response and h...

The murder of Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane was part of British state policy to infiltrate, manipulate and direct terror groups during the Northern Ireland Troubles, Belfast high court has heard. Paramilitary organisations such as the Ulster Defence Association which murdered the solicitor were able t...

The Prime Minister's refusal to hold a public inquiry in to the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane was morally and legally indefensible, a court has been told. A barrister representing Mr Finucane's wife Geraldine alleged David Cameron rejected an inquiry into claims of state collusion with th...

UK response to de Silva report on Pat Finucane: Lessons learnt by government departments from Sir Desmond de Silva’s Report of the Patrick Finucane Review

David Cameron | 16 January 2015

The Prime Minister made a statement to Parliament on lessons learnt by government from Sir Desmond de Silva’s Report of the Patrick Finucane Review. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland appointed Sir Desmond de Silva QC in October 2011 to conduct an independent review into the question of Sta...

Judge orders Finucane documents disclosure

Barry Mc Caffery, The Detail | 23 April 2015

THE British government has been ordered to hand over minutes of cabinet meetings at which the decision was made to refuse a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. Judge Ben Stephens today (Tuesday) ordered that minutes of cabinet meetings in July 2011 and correspondence between MI5 and the...

24 years after Finucane killing, the damage limitation continues

Barry McCaffery, The Detail | 12 February 2013

TODAY marks 24 years since solicitor Pat Finucane was shot dead in a killing which has become a defining symbol of the state’s complicity in the Troubles. The government-commissioned report into the murder has yielded secrets of the “dirty war” which still have the power to shock – such as the exist...

Britain admits collusion after 23 years, but still no public inquiry

Susan McKay, Irish Independant | 13 December 2012

GERALDINE Finucane has always been clear. What she needs to know about the murder of her husband is not who pulled the trigger but who was pulling their strings. She and her family have spent 23 years campaigning for the truth. Now Desmond de Silva has found that the British state colluded in Pat Fi...

British, Irish authorities 'aware of death threat'

Gerry Moriarty, The Irish Times | 14 December 2012

Department of Foreign Affairs officials are to go through old Maryfield Secretariat files to check if there are records about the Charles Haughey government warning the Northern Ireland Office of threats to the lives of Belfast solicitors, including Pat Finucane, it was confirmed last night. They ar...

Press Statement Pat Finucane Centre

PFC | 12 December 2012

The British prime minister, David Cameron, has today described loyalist/ state collusion revealed in the de Silva review relating to the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane as "unbelievably ghastly". The Pat Finucane Centre, however, believes those words would be better applied to the British governmen...

Speech by Geraldine Finucane at the unveiling of a mural in West Belfast to commemorate Pat Finucane

Geraldine Finucane | 09 December 2012

I would like to welcome all of you to this event to mark and commemorate the continuing legacy of my late husband, Pat Finucane. Since Pat’s death, as you all know, our family has been involved in an international campaign seeking the establishment of an independent public inquiry into the circumsta...